Box or receptacle.



H. wALnEs. BOX 0R RECEPTACLE.

'APPLlCATlON FILED DEC. B |913.

`Patented Mar. 21, 1916.

HEINRICH WALDES, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BOX OR RECEPTACLE.

To all whom It may concern: l

Be it known that I, HEINRICH WALDEs, a subject of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, and a resident of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Boxes or Receptacles, of which the following is a speciication.

The object of my invention is to produce a box or receptacle for containing buttons,

pins, hooks and eyes, or any other small articles and from which a few articles at a time may be ejected. The boxes or containers in use at the present time for containing the articles above mentioned are generally boxes of the usual type fitted with covers, etc., and should the cover become lost or torn off from the box, the contents can very easily become lost or stolen. j

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 isa side elevation, partly in section, of my impro-ved box; Fig. 2 is a sectional Velevation onl the line 2 2 of Fig. 1`, looking Vin the direction of the arrows; and Fig. 3 is a modified form of box.

My improved box consists of a casing 1 of any desired form, with one of its corners cut away, leaving an opening orV outlet 2. Mounted in the casing by'meansof a rod 3 and washers 4 is a wheel or carrier 5, and set in the edge of the carrier are webs or partitions 6, and these webs G, together with a strip 7, form a Vseries of boxes 0r compartments 9. vIt is obvious that the shape and size of the wheel or carrier and compart-ments may be modilied in a number of various ways, so I do not limit myself to any special form. A Vhandle 10 of any desired form, by which the carrier is rotated, is mounted on the rod 7, and in order that this handle shall not be outside of the plane of the box, the walls of the box are set in as at 11 and the spaces 12 thus formed are filled in by flaps 13, so that the box is in a compact form for shipping, etc., the flap on the side of the box where the handle is located, being torn or cut away when access to the handle is desired.

In the modified form shown in Fig. 3, the box and carrier are constructed as above Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 21, 1916.

Application filed December 8, 1913. Serial No. 805,213.

set forth, except that instead of being mounted on a rod, the carrier is mounted on circular plates 14 provided with flanges 15 and lips 16, the flanges 15 fitting tightly in recesses in the side of the carrier, thereby causing the same to turn with them, and attached to one of the plates 4 by means of a bolt or screw or other means 17, is a handle 18 of any desired form.

From the foregoing, the operation of my improved device will be readily understood.

I he upper portion of the box is illed with the articles desired through the top 21 and then the box is sealed, and in order to prevent the articles from working in between the carrier and the ends of the box and clogging the same, strips 19 and 2O arev provided. By turning the handle, the carrier is rotated, each of the compartments 9 carrying a few articles and ejecting the same through the opening 2 in the box, as shown in Fig. 1. In order that the amount of articles contained within the box can be readily ascertained, a window 22 is provided on each side of the box.

From the foregoing, it will be seen that many changes may be made in the structure shown, without departing from the spirit of my invention.

W'hat I claim is:

An article of the class described comprising a box having a pair of outer side walls, said walls having circular set in portions, a rod or axle extending from one of said setin portions to the other and rotatably mounted therein, a partitioned carrier fixed to said rod or axle, the side walls of said carrier in the portions of the same where the partitions are situated bearing against the outer side walls of the box and the side walls of the carrier adjacent the axle bearing against the inner sides of the set-in walls of the box and an opening in a portion of the box through which articles transported by the carrier are ejected.

Signed at the city, county and State of New York, this 1st day of December, 1913.

HEINRICH WALDES.

Witnesses:

H. RADZINSKY, LooRUND BAREL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, byaddressing the Commissioner of Patents,

' Washington, D. C. 

